The Lovely and Classy Kelly Bag

The "Kelly Bag" is a handbag manufactured by leather goods and ready-to-wear manufacturer Hermès. It is named after American film and stage actress and fashion icon, Grace Kelly who later became Princess Grace of Monaco.

It is definitely a bag for a Lady!

Nowadays, according to Miller’s Handbags — a Collector’s Guide , vintage examples of the Hermès Kelly change hands for large amounts of money. An early 1960s crocodile Kelly, for example, would be expected to fetch anything from $3,000 - $6,000 at a top auction house.Kelly bags come in 5 different sizes and are usually made from crocodile, alligator, ostrich-skin or plain leather. According to Miller’s guide, they are identifiable by their distinctive metal-tipped clasp, which can be closed with a tiny padlock. Swathed in leather, the clasp's hidden key often dangles from the handle. It takes a single craftsman around 18 hours to produce one of these beauties. The base of the bag is then created, using waxed linen thread and a tough double-saddle stitch, where perforations are painstakingly made into the leather. The following step is the creation of the handle and then the front flap is stitched and added to the body of the bag. The clasp and the four feet at the base of the Kelly are then fitted and the famous padlock added.
The inside of a Kelly bag is as beautifully and as painstakingly made as the outside,, an honored tenet of Hermès, according to Pendersen. The bags seams are smoothed, dyed and waxed.

One of the most memorable, recent Kelly bags is the early ‘90s Hermès Silk Scarf Kelly, a beautiful design of silk florals, based around the famous scarf. 

The "Kelly Bag" was born in 1956, when the Princess of Monaco used one of her two favorite Hermès bags to shield her pregnant stomach from the prying eyes of the paparazzi. Photographs of her covering her stomach bulge with her hallowed Hermès were splashed all over the world and made it onto the cover of Life magazine!

Grace Kelly with The Kelly Bag

(Wikipedia)